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I use this small code close to the head of section of my codes if I'm going to use range function to make it behave same in both python 3 and python 2

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from sys import version_info as version

if version.major == 2:
    range = xrange

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Yaşar Arabacı (author) 12 years, 9 months ago  # | flag

It seems like this is causing problems with python earlier then 2.7, It is better to use it like this:

from sys import version_info
if version_info[0] == 2:
    range = xrange
Created by Yaşar Arabacı on Sun, 24 Jul 2011 (MIT)
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